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than all of his new spending proposals for health care, prescription drugs, education and national defense all combined. i agree that the surplus is the american people's money, it's your money. that's why i don't think we should give nearly half of it to the wealthiest 1%, because the other 99% have had an awful lot to do with building the surplus in our prosperity. >> three-and-a-half minutes is up. new question. >> i hope it's about wealthy people. >> governor bush, you have a question. this is a companion question to the question i asked vice president gore. you have questioned whether vice president gore has demonstrated the leadership qualities necessary to be president of the united states. what do you mean by that? >> actually what i've said, jim. i've said that eight years ago they campaigned on prescription drugs for seniors. and four years ago they campaigned on getting prescription drugs for seniors. and now they're campaigning on getting prescription drugs for seniors. it seems like they can't get it done. now, they may blame other folks, but it's time to get somebody in washi
than all of his new spending proposals for health care, prescription drugs, education and national defense all combined. i agree that the surplus is the american people's money, it's your money. that's why i don't think we should give nearly half of it to the wealthiest 1%, because the other 99% have had an awful lot to do with building the surplus in our prosperity. >> three-and-a-half minutes is up. new question. >> i hope it's about wealthy people. >> governor bush, you...
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he was on the defensive almost the entire time. the governor kept coming back at him with a smile on his faille face in a friendly manner. i don't think the president made any grave mistake tonight. but if he were your champion, have you to be disappointed because governor romney really needed to do something here to invigorate his troops and i think he did it. as i say, i don't know how high could have done a better job. these are sort of onekish subjects. he has the material down cold. i will say this, you understood why he was a very effective executive when he walked into a room and made decisions. the man knows his onions on all of these issues. maybe after 2 years of being in there, he was really at the to which -- at the to whichr top of his game. they have a right to be proud. i think they will get a boost in energy and fire for their troops. >> greta: they do get a bounce, how do you maintain your bounce? another tweet, mike murphy, republican strategist, he said, it's funny, tonight, romney is much better than his campaig
he was on the defensive almost the entire time. the governor kept coming back at him with a smile on his faille face in a friendly manner. i don't think the president made any grave mistake tonight. but if he were your champion, have you to be disappointed because governor romney really needed to do something here to invigorate his troops and i think he did it. as i say, i don't know how high could have done a better job. these are sort of onekish subjects. he has the material down cold. i will...
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he wants $2 trillion in new defense spending that the pentagon did not ask for and he will not saw how he will pay for the tax cut for the wealthy. >>reporter: president obama said he would cut the deficit in half this four years. that has not happened. he is vulnerable on a lot of the key issues. that will be a big part of this face off tonight. >>shepard: thank you, ed henry. as governor romney finishes the debate preparations in the city they are hitting his opponent over the comments from vice president biden. the romney camp calling the remarks about the middle class a stunning admission much he is a spokesman early here on fox news. >> we cannot afford four more years like the last four years we have seen under this president. his own vice president said the middle class has been buried under his policies. what we need is governor romney could come in and deliver a real recovery for the american people. >>shepard: romney campaign trying to capitalize on the remarks about the struggling of the middle class, a theme to be repeated, likely, over and over tonight. now, carl cameron l
he wants $2 trillion in new defense spending that the pentagon did not ask for and he will not saw how he will pay for the tax cut for the wealthy. >>reporter: president obama said he would cut the deficit in half this four years. that has not happened. he is vulnerable on a lot of the key issues. that will be a big part of this face off tonight. >>shepard: thank you, ed henry. as governor romney finishes the debate preparations in the city they are hitting his opponent over the...
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actually talking to each other, so he just let them go, and there were some good exchanges, in his defense. >> we talk about that on live tv, you gotta play to your instincts. we want to show you one more sound bite. this is about romney and big bird. >> i'm sorry, jim. i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs. i love big bird. actually like you too. but i'm not going to keep on spending money and borrowing money from china to pay for it, no. 1. >> is that harsh? >> it's harsh when we're focusing on big bird. but romney's point was that too much of our debt has been accumulated by china and other countries as well. what he didn't mention was that china was buying that up when george w. bush was president as well. but the fact that i had to point that out on the air tonight is an illustration of what barack obama didn't do. the president frankly should have been politely in his face, saying that's not accurate, just like the presentation about romney's health care program. the president should have merely said the governor is being a hypocrite. he did this in massachusetts. and the
actually talking to each other, so he just let them go, and there were some good exchanges, in his defense. >> we talk about that on live tv, you gotta play to your instincts. we want to show you one more sound bite. this is about romney and big bird. >> i'm sorry, jim. i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs. i love big bird. actually like you too. but i'm not going to keep on spending money and borrowing money from china to pay for it, no. 1. >> is that harsh?...
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the secretary of defense has said these would be even devastating. i will not cut our commitment to our military. i will get america's middle- class working again. >> we continue now with final statements from the green party presidential candidate jill stein >> we clearly are in a crisis. people are losing their jobs, their homes, decent wages, affordable health care and higher education. our civil liberties are under attack in the climate is in meltdown. yet the wealthy few are making out better than ever, making out like bandits. richer than ever. while the political establishments that got us into this mess to start with actually is making it worse. both democrats and republicans are making it worse and posing austerity on the everyday people of this country while they continue to squander trillions on taxpayers for the wealthy and big business bailout. we can use this election to turn the breaking point into a tipping point, to take back our democracy and the peaceful, just, green future we deserve. where they're breaking point not only for peop
the secretary of defense has said these would be even devastating. i will not cut our commitment to our military. i will get america's middle- class working again. >> we continue now with final statements from the green party presidential candidate jill stein >> we clearly are in a crisis. people are losing their jobs, their homes, decent wages, affordable health care and higher education. our civil liberties are under attack in the climate is in meltdown. yet the wealthy few are...
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he came in with the pro football players call prevent defense, in basketball it's four corners, fight the clock, pass the ball. and it didn't work. what puzzled me the most is he had opening after opening to dispute what the governor was saying, compared to what he said before, didn't take any of the openings. i'm really puzzled by his performance. he seemed aloof. he'd rather be in a dentist chair than where he was and that translates to body language and facial expressions. i just don't -- can't say what happened to him. all credit to governor romney. got to give him credit. he prepared well. he's in command of what he had. now, question is, does it make a difference? my guess is that it may make some difference. the historical record shows, particularly with first debates when there's more than one, the challenger does well, gets a bump up in a point and a half, two points in the polls. i think this time it may be different. i'll say this, i'm not saying that barack obama's going to lose. but if he loses, we'll look back on last night as the night the tide turned. >> governor rende
he came in with the pro football players call prevent defense, in basketball it's four corners, fight the clock, pass the ball. and it didn't work. what puzzled me the most is he had opening after opening to dispute what the governor was saying, compared to what he said before, didn't take any of the openings. i'm really puzzled by his performance. he seemed aloof. he'd rather be in a dentist chair than where he was and that translates to body language and facial expressions. i just don't --...
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the demeanor of the president was tired, exhausted, defense. the president -- my daughter who is 2,000% in barack obama's camp said he looked like a tired pup by dog tonight. i have done these ten things in the last four years to save this nation. he never said it. he didn't mention the auto bailout until the last 30 seconds. i'm just mystified at the lack of energy passion and precision in his answers. >> john: we saw the president take a lot of punches tonight. i couldn't believe how he just kept taking the punches over and over again, i think john kerry might be enjoying the engineer of his second term right now. and folks at home you have know idea what it was like watching the debates with these folks here. however, i don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. i think barack obama was trying to play out of the john mccainhand book, be cool and restained. what you saw tonight was that approach didn't work and you will see a different strategy the next debate. >> eliot: mitt romney finally cut back to the middle. he wasn't the radical far-
the demeanor of the president was tired, exhausted, defense. the president -- my daughter who is 2,000% in barack obama's camp said he looked like a tired pup by dog tonight. i have done these ten things in the last four years to save this nation. he never said it. he didn't mention the auto bailout until the last 30 seconds. i'm just mystified at the lack of energy passion and precision in his answers. >> john: we saw the president take a lot of punches tonight. i couldn't believe how he...
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the military is not asking for, just to give you a sense, over 10 years, that is more than our entire defense budget, and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then it governor romney's plan may work for you. but i think just common sense and our history shows that is not a recipe per job growth. we have tried both approaches.. the approach that governor romney is talking about is the same sales pitch that was made in 2001 and 2003. we ended up with the slowest job growth in 50 years. we ended up moving from surplus culminated in the worst financial crisis since the great depression. bill clinton created the approach i am talking about. we went from deficit to surplus, and businesses did very well. in some ways, we have some data on which approach is more liiely to create jobs and opportunities for americans, and i believe the economy works best when middle- class families are getting tax breaks so they have some money in their pockets, and those of us who have done extraordinarily well because of this magnificen
the military is not asking for, just to give you a sense, over 10 years, that is more than our entire defense budget, and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then it governor romney's plan may work for you. but i think just common sense and our history shows that is not a recipe per job growth. we have tried both approaches.. the approach that governor romney is talking about is the same sales pitch that was made...
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but the new age crowd says well, miguel cab rare, a he can't run to save his live, his defense is average, all he can do is hit the ball. well, isn't that the basis of the game? you have to hit the ball to score a run. so it's a very passionate debate but a lot of people think if you won the triple crown how can you not be the m.v.p.? especially -- because without miguel cabrera the detroit tigers would not be opening in the american league playoffs on saturday and mike trout's team aren't in the playoffs. >> brown: detroit has a very successful name the playoffs. detroit has had a rough patch for a long time. what role do the tigers play at a moment like this? >> an important role. i'm a born and raised in this town and i've known detroiters live vicariously and that's basically all that we have in a lot of respects that we can embrace and take pride in. so when the teams do well it lifts everyone's spirits. they have three million people buying tickets for the tigers game this year and detroit's economy isn't all that good right now but that tells you how passionate these people are but
but the new age crowd says well, miguel cab rare, a he can't run to save his live, his defense is average, all he can do is hit the ball. well, isn't that the basis of the game? you have to hit the ball to score a run. so it's a very passionate debate but a lot of people think if you won the triple crown how can you not be the m.v.p.? especially -- because without miguel cabrera the detroit tigers would not be opening in the american league playoffs on saturday and mike trout's team aren't in...
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but obama really was weak on his defense it's almost like you can't really defend such help boswell is an actor i mean i think he would have come off better head you had joel stein and gary johnson there not because you might have this libertarian. that might target at romney i think it would have given obama time to really focus on what you know what he's doing as president and present that and attack romney on these laws because what because stein and johnston probably would be a good running interference basically like in a football field would probably hit romney one of them is going to hear some real dialogue because we didn't hear any of that last night but i wanted to talk to you about the guy who moderates that debate jim lehrer you know here he is i mean to me i mean i for watching and we're just like i would love to see chris hedges moderate this debate i mean if. they don't you want to see some really hard questions these people need to deal with that i want this guy just appeasing them feeling that you know. it was i mean i was watching the debate at the press club and i le
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the secretary of defense said this will be devastating. i had not cut our commitment to our military. i will keep america strong and get america's middle class working again. thank you, jim. >> thank you, mr. president. the next debate, the vice presidential event on thursday, october 11th at center college in danville, kentucky. for now, from the university of denver, i'm jim lehrer, thank you, and g
the secretary of defense said this will be devastating. i had not cut our commitment to our military. i will keep america strong and get america's middle class working again. thank you, jim. >> thank you, mr. president. the next debate, the vice presidential event on thursday, october 11th at center college in danville, kentucky. for now, from the university of denver, i'm jim lehrer, thank you, and g
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you can't make a great defense of a record that's not been great. you can't communicate well things you have not delivered well. president obama has not had the four years he wanted to have. he had to talk about it and defend it tonight. he simply -- neil: what do you make, congressman, the argument, that the president is the champ; right? he survived without getting knocked down or knocked out certainly, the default goes to the champ. the champ regimely gets the decision. >> well, i don't know. i saw moments where it looked like he was on the canvas. when mitt romney was coming barks, and point by point saying, yes, you cut medicare -- neil: the five trillion, did you, you did not -- >> here's why it register. anyone on medicare knows the government does not give you a direct amount of money. the government reimburses the doctors. if the government cuts the money that reimburses your doctors, that's how the government cuts medicare. few understand that. neil: at the very least, you think mitt romney might have arrested what had been some losing mom
you can't make a great defense of a record that's not been great. you can't communicate well things you have not delivered well. president obama has not had the four years he wanted to have. he had to talk about it and defend it tonight. he simply -- neil: what do you make, congressman, the argument, that the president is the champ; right? he survived without getting knocked down or knocked out certainly, the default goes to the champ. the champ regimely gets the decision. >> well, i...
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clear openings to put mitt romney on the defensive. why didn't he do that? >> well, first of all, on the 47%, that's an issue that just about 100% of the country knows about. >> and over the last 12 hours -- >> did you hear that? 100% of the country knows that 47% story. i don't believe that. when bush and cheney got in trouble, they went to their base. and president obama needs to go to his base. i don't mean to interrupt you, thomas, but there's a lot of emotion on the left today. and i think the president is asking the left to say, settle down, this is a marathon, it is not a sprint. and there is frustration, no question about it. what's frustrating is we on the left know mitt romney is a liar. it's hard to watch him lie and not be countered. that's the tough thing. >> all right. let's talk about this specifically because as you said, 47% not brought up, bain not brought up, mitt romney's taxes not brought up. it seemed as though mitt romney was prepared to answer some of these tough questions because i noticed when he walked up to the podium, it looked l
clear openings to put mitt romney on the defensive. why didn't he do that? >> well, first of all, on the 47%, that's an issue that just about 100% of the country knows about. >> and over the last 12 hours -- >> did you hear that? 100% of the country knows that 47% story. i don't believe that. when bush and cheney got in trouble, they went to their base. and president obama needs to go to his base. i don't mean to interrupt you, thomas, but there's a lot of emotion on the left...
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they need to take -- >> what's the best defense? >> good offense. >> i would recommend the president. why did the cavalry leave the fort to fight the indians? do you know why? >> why. >> they're cavalry. thank you. >>> coming up, we have a new scoreboard. not like in the old days but spinners will be there. let's watch the power of the tweeter, the twitter, what's going to happen? we'll have people talking about real life, in time, while it's actually happening telling us who's winning this thing and which candidate did a better job framing the argument, deflecting criticism. we'll look at body language, too. how they stand, what they look like. caught on tape, running mate's edition yesterday. the tou"the huffington post" qu paul ryan as saying conservatives wanted 30%. that's going to be in the debate. running mates are causing some headaches for the presidential candidates. >>> also, have i some questions of my own for the candidates. i'm going to ask michael steele and eugene robinson to fill in for obama and romney and let me a
they need to take -- >> what's the best defense? >> good offense. >> i would recommend the president. why did the cavalry leave the fort to fight the indians? do you know why? >> why. >> they're cavalry. thank you. >>> coming up, we have a new scoreboard. not like in the old days but spinners will be there. let's watch the power of the tweeter, the twitter, what's going to happen? we'll have people talking about real life, in time, while it's actually...
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chris, when have you seen the prevent defense work? never. >> richard nixon tried it and richard nixon got blown away. anyway, the president seeped to have regained a bit of a his fighting spirit today. good for him. here he was at a campaign event right there in denver. >> when i got onto the stage, i met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be mitt romney. but it couldn't have been mitt romney because the real mitt romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts to favor the wealthy. the fellow on stage said last night he didn't know anything about that. governor romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth. >> the trouble is 58 million people were just told by niel n nielsen, 58 million, the preliminary estimate watched last night, that was an audience we'll probably never see again, and he now -- >> and probably 2 million, chris, 2 million will see what he said today. can you imagine if he had said on stage last night
chris, when have you seen the prevent defense work? never. >> richard nixon tried it and richard nixon got blown away. anyway, the president seeped to have regained a bit of a his fighting spirit today. good for him. here he was at a campaign event right there in denver. >> when i got onto the stage, i met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be mitt romney. but it couldn't have been mitt romney because the real mitt romney has been running around the country for the last year...
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we don't have a defensive policies in the middle-east. those are the things we need to be talking about, as well as the $16 trillion of debt that continues to grow. >> greta: it's interesting. we seem to measure our candidates by what they say, and not so much by what they do or what they promise or have failed to do. it really -- i mean tsims like the dialogue is what they have said. we try to descraw a motive. >> we need to understand, what's the criteria to start looking and evaluating people by? when i look at -- i have a simple thing that i have here with me. i shared -- >> greta: the microphone -- >> my simple thing that i carry with me are my data cards. there are 10 economic indicators there. look at unemployment, gas prices, debt per person and the insurance premiums and the amount of food stamp recipiens and look at the americans going in poverty. i think that that is a great criteria we need to starts looking at the president and evaluating himg on because it goes from what it was on inauguration day and updated each month. whe
we don't have a defensive policies in the middle-east. those are the things we need to be talking about, as well as the $16 trillion of debt that continues to grow. >> greta: it's interesting. we seem to measure our candidates by what they say, and not so much by what they do or what they promise or have failed to do. it really -- i mean tsims like the dialogue is what they have said. we try to descraw a motive. >> we need to understand, what's the criteria to start looking and...
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i listened to my defense secretary. i listened to my secretary of state pip also listened to my generals. and at the end of the day, i went and visited arlington national cemetery. i went to walter reed. i saw the costs of war. and i made the best decision i could make at time, with plenty of input. but the most important thing to me was setting a deadline for our soldiers to come home, and that is happening. we are disengaging. but this question makes me wonder if you're suggesting that mitt romney would perhaps prefer that i not have sent troops into afghanistan, because he's been very vague on his own plans for afghanistan, and so far, i've seen a lot of saber rattling, chris. i'm not sure that i've seen a war that he doesn't like. i really would love to hear him answer what his plan for afghanistan truly is. >> fair enough. let's go to the tough question for governor romney. you supported the vietnam war. you were a protester, a student at stanford, for the war. i never heard of such a person. you were out there wit
i listened to my defense secretary. i listened to my secretary of state pip also listened to my generals. and at the end of the day, i went and visited arlington national cemetery. i went to walter reed. i saw the costs of war. and i made the best decision i could make at time, with plenty of input. but the most important thing to me was setting a deadline for our soldiers to come home, and that is happening. we are disengaging. but this question makes me wonder if you're suggesting that mitt...
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and secondddegree where assspeakkng with my clieet and his mother :50 it ssems to be a case of self defense and bullying where the system faiied my client :52 attorney has been given an nss 3 evidenceeand witnesses to gatte support his bullying defense. you may eventually see an added surcharge on your b.g.e. bill. it's just one recommendations of a task force... looking those long powerroutages in major storms.john rydell has peaction from governor oomalley. the summer derecho...not only caused millionsinndamage.it the dark...some... ffr uu to a week. now a gubernatorial ttsk ffrce...is unveiling bg.e. can better prepare for maaor storms. one proposal...imppse a monthly surcharge on all b.g.e.the added revenue...wouud be used to expand maintenance operations...from more tree trimmingg...tooburring more pooer liies unddrground. (governor) "they're probably willing o pay another dollar assured that they won't bb throwing out wo and three hundree dollarssworth of groceries every timee onn of &pthrrugg our area."/new at 10/ (rydell) "but that propooed ssrcharge that would alllw utility compann
and secondddegree where assspeakkng with my clieet and his mother :50 it ssems to be a case of self defense and bullying where the system faiied my client :52 attorney has been given an nss 3 evidenceeand witnesses to gatte support his bullying defense. you may eventually see an added surcharge on your b.g.e. bill. it's just one recommendations of a task force... looking those long powerroutages in major storms.john rydell has peaction from governor oomalley. the summer derecho...not only...
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, but where you're going to lead this country and then contrast that strongly and put romney on the defensive about the fact how can you actually tell the american people that the policies you support, which are the same that created this mess, are going to lead us to a different direction and then don't filibuster. i love the president, but boy, he has a tendency to go on and on in some of those questions and in a debate, that can get you in trouble. >> get in, get out. new polling is showing mitt romney has narrowed the gap. good news for him. in the last two weeks and your tips, you said the governor needs to show passion for the country and it people. what does he say to voters to do that because there is still the sting from that 47% remark that people are not walking away from that is resognating. >> one of the things we often had conversations with rick santorum about. he had no lack of passion on the stage. one of the things he did was leave everybody in a negative tone. with the statistics of where we are now. unemployment being high and poverty being high. and then just walk off and
, but where you're going to lead this country and then contrast that strongly and put romney on the defensive about the fact how can you actually tell the american people that the policies you support, which are the same that created this mess, are going to lead us to a different direction and then don't filibuster. i love the president, but boy, he has a tendency to go on and on in some of those questions and in a debate, that can get you in trouble. >> get in, get out. new polling is...
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the governor looked to put the president on the defensive. they think that was accomplished here tonight. also, you heard governor romney right out of the gate come out here and talk about a woman that he met on the trail in a last couple of days, talking about economic hardship. that was another hurdle that romney tried to cross, connecting with average problems facing americans, not a surprise that he talked about women on the trail and in key states, key battleground states, what they believe that as you mentioned, george, no knockout punch here tonight, but it was a strong performance from the governor when he needed it most. >> all right, david and jake, thank you. and we're going to take a quick break, but you've been asking us to fact check some of the numbers we heard tonight, some of the conflicting opinions, conflicting debate points. we're going to do just that, take the big three when we come back. e in this debate. let's go to jonathan karl, who is standing by. he's been standing sentry over these facts tonight. take the big two
the governor looked to put the president on the defensive. they think that was accomplished here tonight. also, you heard governor romney right out of the gate come out here and talk about a woman that he met on the trail in a last couple of days, talking about economic hardship. that was another hurdle that romney tried to cross, connecting with average problems facing americans, not a surprise that he talked about women on the trail and in key states, key battleground states, what they...
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sure, the president looked bored and defensive, but he didn't say anything sound bitable. he didn't sight, he didn't check his watch, didn't answer in detached and aloof fashion a question about somebody raining and killing his wife. he was not shocking, he was -- i suspect the goal of the night was actually to be mhh and live to fight another day. it's not the greatest strategy i have ever heard but it's not a campaign-ending strategy. we've still got three more debates to go. the next one is next week and it's between joe biden and paul ryan. joe's not going to be afraid to throw some punks around and combat the deceptions about taxes, medicare, social security, and the rest. and the president himself has two more chances to meet romney on the debate field of battle. you can bet that the passive note scribbling guy that showed up last night is not going to show up for the next two. romney outperformed, obama underperformed. if nothing else there will be a natural regression to the mean. plus, the expectations for obama going in were way out of whack and now they've certa
sure, the president looked bored and defensive, but he didn't say anything sound bitable. he didn't sight, he didn't check his watch, didn't answer in detached and aloof fashion a question about somebody raining and killing his wife. he was not shocking, he was -- i suspect the goal of the night was actually to be mhh and live to fight another day. it's not the greatest strategy i have ever heard but it's not a campaign-ending strategy. we've still got three more debates to go. the next one is...